Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification

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A catalogue of attack patterns as an abstraction mechanism for helping describe how an attack against vulnerable systems or networks is executed published by the MITRE Corporation

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acronym: CAPEC
plural: Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classifications
possessive: Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification's
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